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Mississippians Boycott State Fair Over Racist's Inclusion

Richard Barrett, leader of the Nationalist Movement, a white supremacist group headquartered in Learned, Miss., has requested and been granted a booth at the State Fair's Agricultural building. And not many people are happy about it.

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In Washington, the ink has barely dried on President Obama's order officially closing Guantanamo Bay's Camp Delta detention facility. But for a legion of Gitmo guards on the Cuban waterfront, nothing has changed.

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The race between Rep. Bennie Thompson and challenger Clinton B. LeSueur, both African Americans, to represent Mississippi's only black district is centering around questions of faith and the government's role in legislating religion.

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